| Preface | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Introduction: Critical Realism, Hegelian Dialectic and the Problems of Philosophy - Preliminary Considerations | p. 1 |
| Objectives of the Book | p. 1 |
| 'Dialectic': An Initial Orientation | p. 3 |
| Negation | p. 4 |
| Four Degrees of Critical Realism | p. 8 |
| Prima Facie Objections to Critical Realism | p. 14 |
| On the Sources and General Character of the Hegelian Dialectic | p. 15 |
| On the Immanent Critique and Limitations of the Hegelian Dialectic | p. 23 |
| The Fine Structure of Hegelian Dialectic | p. 28 |
| Epistemological Dialectic and the Problems of Philosophy | p. 33 |
| Dialectic: The Logic of Absence - Arguments, Themes, Perspectives, Configurations | p. 38 |
| Absence | p. 38 |
| Emergence | p. 49 |
| Contradiction I: Hegel and Marx | p. 56 |
| Contradiction II: Misunderstandings | p. 72 |
| On the Materialist Diffraction of Dialectic | p. 86 |
| Dialectical Arguments and the Unholy Trinity | p. 102 |
| Dialectical Motifs: Tina Formations, Mediation, Concrete Universality, etc. | p. 112 |
| On the Generalized Theory of the Dialectical Remark, the Failure of Detachment and the Presence of the Past | p. 134 |
| Dialectical Critical Naturalism | p. 152 |
| Towards a Real Definition of Dialectic | p. 173 |
| Dialectical Critical Realism and the Dialectic of Freedom | p. 204 |
| Ontology | p. 204 |
| The Dialectic of Truth | p. 214 |
| On the Emergence and Derivability of Dialecticized Transcendental Realism | p. 224 |
| 1M Realism: Non-Identity | p. 231 |
| 2E Realism: Negativity | p. 238 |
| Space, Time and Tense | p. 250 |
| Social Science, Explanatory Critique, Emancipatory Axiology | p. 258 |
| 3L Realism: Totality | p. 270 |
| 4D Realism: Agency | p. 276 |
| The Dialectic of Desire to Freedom | p. 279 |
| Dialectical Critical Realism and the Dialectics of Critical Realism | p. 299 |
| Metacritical Dialectics: Irrealism and Its Consequences | p. 308 |
| Irrealism | p. 308 |
| The Problems of Philosophy and Their Resolution | p. 314 |
| Contradictions of the Critical Philosophy | p. 322 |
| Dilemmas of the Beautiful Soul and the Unhappy Consciousness | p. 326 |
| Master and Slave: From Dialectics of Reconciliation to Dialectics of Liberation | p. 330 |
| The Metacritique of the Hegelian Dialectic | p. 336 |
| Marxian Dialectic I: The Rational Kernel in the Mystical Shell | p. 344 |
| Marxian Dialectic II: The Mystical Shell in the Rational Kernel | p. 348 |
| Metacritical Dialectics: Philosophical Ideologies - Their Sublation and Explanation | p. 354 |
| The Consequences of Irrealism | p. 365 |
| Diffracted and Retotalized Dialectics | p. 370 |
| Dialectic as the Pulse of Freedom | p. 378 |
| Notes | p. 386 |
| Glossary | p. 392 |
| Name Index | p. 407 |
| Subject Index | p. 409 |
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